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Kindergarten News...
September Happenings in Kindergarten
Do not forget that Early Release days are Thursday, September 11, 2008, and Friday, September 12, 2008. The children will be leaving school at 12:15 both days.
Please make an appointment with your child’s teacher. This is a great way to strengthen the home/school connection. We would like to have 100% participation.
Some Kindergarten Classes will have “Muffins with Mom” on September 19, 2008. Check your child’s folder for more information.
Remember to check your child’s folder each night and sign his/her agenda.
English Language Arts
Starting September 8, 2008-September 29, 2008
September 8, 2008, we will begin Theme Two, “Colors All Around.”
Phonemic Awareness: We will be working on beginning sounds and words in oral sentences.
Phonics: We will focus on the letters Ss (Sammy Seal), Mm (Mimi Mouse), and Rr (Reggie Rooster). We will work on letter recognition and the sounds that they make.
High Frequency Words: We will focus on I and see. We will also be working on lists for August still and September. Once your child has mastered these lists, they will know all the words for the first list to be checked off on the report card. There are four lists for the report card.
The lists are as follows:
List 1-August/September
List 2-October/November/December
List 3-January/February
List 4-March/April
Reading Strategies: Predict/Infer; Summarize
We will read: I Need a Lunch Box, I Went Walking, What’s My Favorite Color?, Caps of Many Colors, In the Big Blue Sea, What Do You Do, Norbert Wu?, How the Birds Got Their Colors, Brown Bear , Brown Bear What Do You See?, and many other wonderful stories.
Comprehension Skills: sequence of events; inferences; making predictions
Vocabulary: We will use describing words; exact naming words (nouns), and singular/plural naming words (nouns).
Writing: We will write sentences using the words see and I. We will write descriptions, journals, a graphic organizer, and a class story.
Listening/Viewing/Speaking: We will do activities to support vocabulary expansion and writing.
Math for the Month of September
Starting September 8, 2008-September 29, 2008
Chapter 1
We will identify when an object is beside another object, above another object, or below another object.
We will identify when an object is in front of another object, behind another object, inside another object, or outside it.
We will understand spatial relationships.
We will sort objects by color, shape, size, or kind.
We will use pictures to problem solve.
We will graph everything!!
Vocabulary:
above, below, beside, inside, outside, in front of, behind, alike, not alike, sort, group, set, size, kind, graph, row, column
Science
September 8, 2008-September 29, 2008
Unit B Senses and sorting continued from last month. This unit continues until September 29, 2008.
Starting on August 18, 2008, and continuing through until September 26, 2008, we will begin a unit on Senses and Sorting. We will sort objects by using our senses. We will classify materials according to their physical attributes and graph the number of items that have the same physical attributes. We will determine objects that sink and that float in water and use an observation sheet to record our results. Students will be able to use their senses to sort, identify the effect of heat on items, and identify whether items have been sorted correctly.
In Social Studies
We will state rules and the consequences for breaking rules. We will use a map to find various places in the school. We will use direction words to find objects and places. The students need to be working on personal demographic information (address, city, county, state, nation, and continent).This is a year long goal for the report card. In addition to address information, the students need to know birthday (month, date, and year) and phone number (area code + phone number).
Starting September 8, 2008-September 29, 2008
Patriotic Symbols-Patriot’s Day is September 11, 2008.
The Kindergarten Team
Kindergarten Supply List...
Book bag – no rolling bags
Change of clothes
1 16 count box of Crayons
Plastic tri-fold nap mat
No. 2 pencils
2 pocket folders with prongs
1 spiral-bound notebook – 80 pages
1 container of wet wipes (baby)*
1 box plastic lock bags – pint size
1 box of tissue
1 pair of scissors (blunt)
2 glue sticks
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